Monthly Archives: November 2015
After finishing the 2015 Boston marathon, Gianclaudio realized his ID was gone and, not speaking English, he could not find his way to his people or his hotel. Being clever, he went for the the airport directly, but he was taken for by many homeless or worse. The story of Gianclaudio P. Marengo’s survival has a lucky ending: he was recognized for the civilized but lost Italian he was and returned to people he knew by an officer who said…..
It goes without saying, if you have a role to play in getting people out of trouble, just go do it. The minutes will be stretched to hours and you will not be able to move fast enough…and you will not be needing this note. That is not most people much of the time. For most there are still three things they can do. 1. Fight. Channel aggression into something useful, or at least physical. My daughter was disturbed not…..
Three hundred eighty years after Roger Williams put everything on the line to stand for heartfelt worship and respect for conscience, we seem a bit building focused. When we talk of separation of church and state we often focus on which building an organization can meet in, e.g. can a church meet in a public school. There is a sad lament that churches in Europe are being repurposed rapidly as they are empty, but Roger Williams might have been happy,…..
When Roger Williams was banished he set out alone into a blizzard in a harsh New England winter. He would survive to separate church and state in a brand new settlement that would become Rhode Island. Roger Williams wrote little that has survived about his 14 week winter stay in the wilderness of New England. The resulting absence of fact has led to a plethora of theories. There are many alternatives to the one in the novel Rekindled. What we do…..